Hame-fastener



A. 0. RICHARDSON.

Hams-Fastener.

No. 227,384. Patented May 11. I880.

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ALBERT C. RICHARDSON, OF SOUTH FRANKFORT, MICHIGAN.

HAM E-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,384, dated. May 11, 1880.

Application filed J une G, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT G. RICHARD SON, of South Frankfort, in the county of Benzie and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hame- Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, showing the hame-fastener open; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the hame-fastener when closed.

This invention relates to hame-fasteners; and it consists in the improvements in the construction of the same hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, 0 designates the body-frame of the fastener, constructed, for convenience, in elongated U form, the sides being strengthened and connected by bolts to.

At the rounded end of the frame 0 a latch, b, provided with a fingerpiece, c, and operated by a spring, 0, is located, to engage with a keeper, E, at the outer end of the pivoted snaphook A. The snap-hook A is pivoted to one end of the frame 0, as shown in Fig. 1.

A double snap-hook, B, is provided, one end of which is designed to engage with either of the bars or rods a, and the other to engage with one of the hame-buokles.

To operate the device, the free ends of the snap-hooks A and B are snapped into the hame-buckles, and the frame Ois drawn uponby grasping its lower end and moved toward the keeper F until the latter engages the latch 12. To unfasten the hames the finger-piece c is operated to withdraw thelatch, when either or both of the snap-hooks may be unsnapped and the hames removed from the collar. I

The series of bars or rods to permit the changing of the double snap-hook, so as to adapt the fastener to collars of different sizes.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. Inahame-fastener havingthebody-frame 0 provided with the rods a, the combination therewith of the double snap-hook B, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a hame-fastener, the combination of the body-frame 0, provided with the rods a, latch b, spring 0, and finger-piece c, with the pivoted snaphook A, having the keeper E, and the double snap-hook B, constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ALBERT o. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. BREWER, WILLIAM H. FRANCIS. 

